Jo Gill (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath

Herausgeber: Gill, Jo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The controversies that surround Sylvia Plath's life and work mean that her poems are more read and studied now than ever before. This comprehensive and authoritative overview of Plaths work pays particular attention to key debates and to well-known texts such as Ariel and the The Bell Jar, while offering original and thought-provoking readings to new as well as more experienced Plath readers. With its invaluable guide to further reading and chronology of Plath's life and work, this Companion will help students and scholars understand and enjoy Plath's work and its continuing relevance.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780521844963
• ISBN-10: 0521844967
• Artikelnr.: 21020465

Autorenporträt

Jo Gill is Lecturer in American Literature at Bath Spa University College.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and textual note
Chronology of Plath's life and work
Part I. Contexts and Issues: 1. The problem of biography Susan R. van Dyne
2. Plath, history and politics Deborah Nelson
3. Plath and psychoanalysis: uncertain truths Lynda K. Bundtzen
4. Plath and contemporary American poetry Linda Wagner-Martin
5. Plath and contemporary British poetry Alice Entwistle
Part II. Works: 6. The poetry of Sylvia Plath Steven Gould Axelrod
7. The Colossus and Crossing the Water Jo Gill
8. Ariel and other poems Christina Britzolakis
9. The Bell Jar and other prose Janet Badia
10. Sylvia Plath's letters and journals Tracy Brain
11. The poetry of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: call and response Diane Middlebrook
Selected reading
Index.

---

Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and textual note; Chronology of Plath's life and work; Part I. Contexts and Issues: 1. The problem of biography Susan R. van Dyne; 2. Plath, history and politics Deborah Nelson; 3. Plath and psychoanalysis: uncertain truths Lynda K. Bundtzen; 4. Plath and contemporary American poetry Linda Wagner-Martin; 5. Plath and contemporary British poetry Alice Entwistle; Part II. Works: 6. The poetry of Sylvia Plath Steven Gould Axelrod; 7. The Colossus and Crossing the Water Jo Gill; 8. Ariel and other poems Christina Britzolakis; 9. The Bell Jar and other prose Janet Badia; 10. Sylvia Plath's letters and journals Tracy Brain; 11. The poetry of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: call and response Diane Middlebrook; Selected reading; Index.